Thursday, 13 February 2014

Lords of Olympus: Mythic (Super) Heroes!

I mentioned something in my review of Lords of Olympus a few days
back, the review being generally well-received, that I wanted to
elaborate on a little bit. I had said that people who were looking for
play imitating certain sources would find LoO useful. In addition to
Greek Myth itself, I mentioned such things as Clash of the Titans, Percy
Jackson, and also, the more mythological runs of Wonder Woman.

I could elaborate on that last point: I have not been reading the
new-52 Wonder Woman, but one of my players does, and he was the first to
point out to me that a lot of what is going on in the new run (well,
“new” is relative since its been going on for what, 15 issues now?) is
absolutely something that could come right out of Lords of Olympus.

So there you go, if you’re a Wonder Woman fan, you might want to
check out LoO; but to expand further on that, I would say that Lords of
Olympus is a game that would be very well suited for the “Mythological
supers” concept. Not just Wonder Woman or Marvel’s Hercules, but Thor
and even Hawkman in his more Egyptian moments, or Aquaman or Namor in
their more Atlantean.

In fact, it’d be a hell of a thing to run a relatively “closed realm”
LoO campaign where the PCs are the “Ultimates”-style first/new/only
heroes of a modern Earth (maybe with a few Heroic Mortals trying to give
them some competition).